# TV show marathon you'd love to see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536 "2006-01-05T06:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/1 "2006-01-05T06:00:59Z")
Over the New Year, they showed a lot of marathons on TV. That 70s Show, Monk, Law and Order (well, they do that daily), 24. Me, I watched the annual Twilight Zone marathon on Sci Fi. Best one there is, in my opinion. There’s probably beeb a marathon of every show at least once on some channel…so what’s a marathon you’d watch (if you had the time and knew it was on)? Even if you’ve seen a marathon of it before, some are so good, you could watch the shows over and over. Me, I’d love a Rosanne marathon. Or a Married With Children one. I’m also dying to see a Wonder Years marathon, although I don’t think one is coming any time soon. Nip/Tuck I’d love a marathon on, but it’d take up a pretty big time gap. And then there’s some I’d like a marathon of just so I can start watching them from the first episode. One’s like (already mentioned) That 70s Show and 24. Also, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, Lost, and House. Yes, I know I could buy the DVDs and watch them all in a row then, but that would require money…something I don’t have much of. 😛 So thus, marathons that would be shown on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/2 "2006-01-05T06:23:35Z")
Sex and The City, I would like to see old episodes of ER That’s all I can think of now 🙂 Apparently I am horny and in need of medical help 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/3 "2006-01-05T09:47:04Z")
Gilmore Girls. > [@Poysyn](#): > > Apparently I am horny and in need of medical help 🙂 So am I 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/4 "2006-01-05T11:39:49Z")
“Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert” from my youth. Also “In Concert” (?) from the same era. (early 70’s) ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/5 "2006-01-05T12:41:54Z")
The Larry Sanders Show. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/6 "2006-01-05T13:37:42Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert” from my youth. Also “In Concert” (?) from the same era. (early 70’s) You youngun’s. Why not Hullabaloo and Shindig from the 60s, when music was really music? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/7 "2006-01-05T13:43:39Z")
I’d watch a **Green Acres** or **The Beverly Hillbillies** marathon. Both have been done already, I think. I’d be all about a **Have Gun Will Travel** marathon. Finally, a **Dark Shadows** marathon would be a useful learning experience because it’s one way to get the human mind to truly comprehend the concept of “eternity.” ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/8 "2006-01-05T13:51:41Z")
Northern Exposure. Doesn’t seem to be on anywhere right now. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/9 "2006-01-05T14:21:17Z")
“Barney Miller” and “Taxi”. With a mini-marathon of the short lived “Fish” included in the BR marathon. Oh, and “WKRP”. I’m sure Nick at Nite had one or all of these marathons before, but I missed them. I have DVR now. Please rerun them. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/10 "2006-01-05T14:58:32Z")
Logo had a marathon of _Wonderfalls_ going over the holidays. I didn’t catch it when it was originally aired on broadcast TV. I’m now a big fan of the show and wish it hadn’t been canned. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/11 "2006-01-05T15:07:51Z")
WKRP is the biggie because of the copyrights. Most everything else has been done or on DVD. Another favorite of mine is Homicide, life on the street. I could watch that all day. Except for the last season, Ug. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/12 "2006-01-05T15:10:58Z")
The 1980s version of _The Twilight Zone_, which thanks to Santa, I now own all the episodes and started my own marathon. Don’t get me wrong, I love the classics, but I’ve seen them so many times, and the newer ones so few that I wanted to see them again (and they are outstanding, I forgot Wes Craven directed a lot of these). ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/13 "2006-01-05T15:12:59Z")
The Adventures of Pete and Pete. I miss that show. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/14 "2006-01-05T15:47:49Z")
The complete Dr Who , if I had a year to kill 😃 For a show Like lost, half the fun is all the speculation and discussion on SDMB. I’m not sure if I’d want to watch it all at once. I’ve had “mini marathons” of Buffy and Angel (the later I never saw “live”), as well as Babylon 5. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/15 "2006-01-05T15:52:05Z")
I’d like to see several short run series reaired, like _The Ropers_, _Open All Night_, _Bagdhad Cafe_ and other series I liked but only lasted a few episodes. Others I’d like have been mentioned here, like Barney Miller and Northern Exposure and Green Acres. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/16 "2006-01-05T16:02:37Z")
**The Prisoner** **Police Squad** (they actually did this on Comedy Central, at the time they released one of the Naked Gun movies) **Men Into Space** – I haven’t seen this series since it was originally broadcast in 1959. I don’t think it’s ever been on VHS or DVD, or even syndicated. Even books on SF TV rarely have anything about it, not even episode listings. Only on the Internet has more info about it come out. very good, hardcore accurate science fiction, from what I recall. **Starlost** – I know it’s supposed to be awful. But I’ve never seen it. Again, AFAIK, never re-syndicated , VHSed or DVDed **Tom Corbett, Space Cadet** – again, I never saw any of these. **Mission Impossible** – the first season or so, back when it was new and really good, pre-Peter Graves. **Conections, Connections 2, Connection 3, The Day the Universe Changed** – I _love_ James Burke’s series ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/17 "2006-01-05T16:14:34Z")
WKRP, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/18 "2006-01-05T16:29:52Z")
**The Pretender** – It’s finally out on DVD and I keep being very tempted to buy the set but the truth is that I’m not a huge fan of tv on dvd, I don’t know why… ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/19 "2006-01-05T16:34:29Z")
> [@TommyTutone](#): > > The 1980s version of _The Twilight Zone_, which thanks to Santa, I now own all the episodes and started my own marathon. Me too! I’m so jealous of you right now! I’d also love a **Ripley’s Believe it or Not** marathon. Not the Dean Cain ones (which suck, IMO), the 1980s Jack Palance ones. It was my favorite show in that era. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/20 "2006-01-05T17:21:43Z")
There was a WKRP marathon on TVLand or Nick At Night a few years ago, which I have on tape. I’d like to see marathons of \*Midnight Special, Laugh-In, The Smothers Brothers’ Comedy Hour, Batman, \*and _Connections with James Burke_. Plus another vote for _Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536.md?page=2)